From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932235AbWGXRmY (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Jul 2006 13:42:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932237AbWGXRmY (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Jul 2006 13:42:24 -0400 Received: from ms-smtp-04.nyroc.rr.com ([24.24.2.58]:47857 "EHLO ms-smtp-04.nyroc.rr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932235AbWGXRmX (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Jul 2006 13:42:23 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add maintainer for memory management From: Steven Rostedt To: Christoph Lameter Cc: Andi Kleen , LKML , Andrew Morton , linux-mm@kvack.org In-Reply-To: References: <1153713707.4002.43.camel@localhost.localdomain> <200607241413.52064.ak@suse.de> <1153744263.4002.75.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 13:42:06 -0400 Message-Id: <1153762926.11295.35.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 09:28 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Mon, 24 Jul 2006, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > > OK, is there an actual maintainer for the mm code? Andrew Morton might > > be the best person to ask this to. Perhaps if someone would like the > > job and that person is capable, we can choose an official maintainer for > > the mm part of the kernel. > > We all have specialities and Andrew is the Czar over all of this. I > always though that the mm tree is there and named that way because Andrew > *is* in effect the mm maintainer although he seem to keep getting > distracted by lots of other stuff. I knew Andrew started the -mm branch for the memory management, but I just thought he grew to general Linux Maintainer, so I didn't even think of Andrew as such. That title would probably be a demotion for him now ;) -- Steve